I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all earthly ties and isolating me as it were.

I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.

The quality of life depends upon the ability of society to teach it's members how to live in harmony with their environment-def ined first as family, then the community, then the world and its resources.

The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.

A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.